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Come for the honesty Stay stay for the fire. Phil Martelli Jr. is with us. He's the head coach at VCU. He said if he wasn't coaching, he'd like to be a sports radio host in Philadelphia. So we give him that opportunity every now and again. We have done it once. We'll do it again here. There's a lot going on with Philly Sports. And Rob Brindamore is going to join us, who is the head coach of the Carolina Panthers. They're taking out. Now, he's a Flyers legend. Flyer fans love Brindamore, but he is

coaching against Martelli's Flyers. And so we'll get to that in just a second. But coach,

let's start here. Nothing says March like the field of 76, huh?

I mean, we all knew it was coming, right? Like, we knew it was once they, with any of this stuff, if we, if there's one thing we've learned is once they start talking about it, it's going to happen. Right. And it was just a matter of could, were they going to go to 72, 76? But here's what I'll say. Like people are like anything, right? They get up in arms right away.

Oh my God, what are we doing?

Blah, blah, blah.

Well, they did that when he went from 64 to 65, how many years ago. Yes. And then it went from 65 to 68 and everybody was like, and everybody's good with it now. You know, so yeah, it'll be weird next year. but the reality is like in a in a couple years, those guys that take off, you know, that like to take off Thursday and Friday and spend the whole day watching games. Now they're going to take off Tuesday and Wednesday, too, and they'll watch games all day. I can support that. You know what? I shouldn't be criticizing this. That's a great point by you. Thank you for pointing that out. Go ahead, Mikey.

Coach, if you're ranked 77th, you can't complain, right? Like, that's just way too far. Yeah. But that's going to happen. Yes, of course. Yes, of course. Again, go back in time. You would have said that to like, well, if you were 69th, you don't have no gripe. Well, what did we have all year?

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